Results 41-60 of 8,245 for speaker:Bríd Smith

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: I do not expect you to fly up to the sky. Surely there is some legal apparatus we can use.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: What happens if they do not?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: And secondly-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: I honestly believe that most people in this country will see the performance of An Taoiseach, Simon Harris, after he left the meeting in Washington with Joe Biden yesterday as woeful, pitiful and feeble. Anyone who was given an opportunity to say to Joe Biden to stop arming Israel would use it. Emmanuel Macron has done so. What is the problem with our Taoiseach not doing so? This morning,...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: That says it all.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: Will you vote on the Bill?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: No one is denying that.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: I want to comment on what has been said.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: I will not repeat the adjectives used by the Deputy, but I think he will find, in his objections to this Bill, that An Taisce is probably one of his best friends. An Taisce has warned that the Bill is part of a growing European and British trend that is intentionally rolling back on democratic legal norms. Did the Attorney General, Rossa Fanning, privately tell the Government that this Bill...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: There is a lot of talk about pensioners, their rights, their poverty and the way they live, but there is another aspect to pensioners we are losing sight of, that is, they are retired workers and many of them have pensions they are entitled to have and to have increases in. A cohort badly hit by the austerity in 2011 and 2012 is public sector pensioners. I am not talking about the...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: People Before Profit does not support this Bill. We have every sympathy with small rural family farmers and fishers in communities that have been decimated in rural Ireland. I was listening to the debate before I came to the Chamber. The expression "that beats Banagher" occurred to me as I listened to Deputy Nolan quoting the late, great Tony Benn, a pro-choice socialist who absolutely...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: Will you stop blaming everything on immigrants? It is disgraceful. He is blaming immigrants for everything.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: If the Taoiseach takes his duties seriously, he should represent the people of this country-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil: Motion (8 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: -----and demand the US stops arming Israel.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: What was the name of the former Minister of Finance from Limerick?

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: He stood there and said that the Government of the time was picking the low-hanging fruit first after the banking collapse in 2008 when he came into government. He said it was picking the low-hanging fruit for austerity. Those low-hanging fruits were the drug and addiction services in communities, the family support and youth services and the intervention services that were needed in the...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Government has proven that for the past 11 years.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: Millions were.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: When the Government praises this budget and says it has done a great job, that is quite a subjective point of view I want to be objective on behalf of a different cohort of people-----

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (3 Oct 2024)

Bríd Smith: -----than the Fine Gael TDs sitting opposite me. That is the community and voluntary sector, the sector that looks after the people who live in poverty. "Poverty" is a word that is very seldom heard in this House. It is a word the Government has forgotten. The Government speaks about inclusion. Yes, inclusion is great. It is a nice word and all the rest of it. However, I am talking...